Jason’s favorites of 2023: Apps, movies, TV, books
woensdag 27 december 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)So it’s come to this: Another lap around the sun, another year over. Before the calendars flip over to 2024—a year so hilarious that I can’t believe it’s not a typo—I thought I’d share some of the stuff I really enjoyed in the year gone by.…
Lees meer(Podcast) Upgrade 492: The 2023 Upgrade Holiday Special
maandag 25 december 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Twitter was dead, to begin with. Five years later, we look at the Ghost Of Apple Future from a different perspective. There’s also some Holiday Ask Upgrade.…
Lees meerThis Week in Apple: Year-end closeouts (Member Post)
vrijdag 22 december 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)
Hope you already got an Apple Watch 9 if you were in the market. Laughing at GM seems like it’s going to be a sport for a long time but the Beeper Mini saga seems to be ending.… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get acce…
Lees meerZoom on tvOS: Big screen video chatting needs some work
donderdag 21 december 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)
Your author, looking a bit like he’s trapped in a Wes Anderson movie. Ever since the announcement earlier this year of Continuity Camera for tvOS, I’ve been looking forward to giving Zoom a try on the Apple TV.…
Lees meer(Podcast) Clockwise 534: Live From the North Pole
woensdag 20 december 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Our joyful tech moments in 2023, the most significant non-AI tech advancement or launch in 2023, tech anticipation for 2024, and a self-indulgent gift we’ve chosen for the holidays.…
Lees meer(Podcast) The Rebound 475: Mortgage Krampus
woensdag 20 december 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Apple is staring down the barrel of a Watch import ban and we have some investment advice for you that involves time travel.…
Lees meerApple had a quiet 2023–but it could be the calm before the storm (Macworld/Jason Snell)
woensdag 20 december 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Another trip around the sun, and for Apple, this felt like the calm before the storm. Next year, the Vision Pro will arrive, Apple will reportedly unleash new operating systems powered by next-generation AI, and the entire iPad product line will pro…
Lees meerApple adds The Athletic to News+, Wirecutter coming soon ↦
dinsdag 19 december 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Apple Newsroom: Apple and The Athletic today announced that Apple News+ subscribers now have access to The Athletic’s unrivaled sports journalism. The Athletic provides best-in-class team coverage, as well as coverage of the biggest and most comp…
Lees meer(Podcast) Upgrade 491: The 2023 Upgradies
maandag 18 december 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)It’s time for the 10th Annual Upgradies! Myke and Jason discuss their favorites of 2023, take the input of many Upgradians, and hand out awards in numerous categories!…
Lees meerThe case for clipboard managers
donderdag 14 december 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)
Pastebot’s history window. Last week, I walked myself through the process of realizing the power of macOS Defaults and how, over the two decades of modern macOS, Apple has addressed most of the basic needs of the average user.…
Lees meerThe iPhone 15 was a big deal in 2023 but these three moves were even bigger (Macworld/Dan Moren)
donderdag 14 december 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)We’re just a couple weeks away from putting 2023 in our rearview mirror, so it’s time—as the natural order of things dictates—to cast our eyes back over the last twelve months and attempt to shape the events into some semblance of narrative.…
Lees meer(Podcast) Clockwise 533: I’m the App
woensdag 13 december 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)The additional security measures we use, tech resources for traveling abroad, our valuable vintage tech, and how we feel about crowdfunding.…
Lees meer(Podcast) The Rebound 474: Always Be Smirching
woensdag 13 december 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Are things worse than they used to be or as bad as they always were?…
Lees meerHow to stop Mail logs from eating your disk space
dinsdag 12 december 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)The other week, I noticed that the amount of free disk space on my MacBook Air had dropped rather precipitously to under a few gigabytes. As I usually don’t store that many files on that machine—much less large ones—I went poking around to figure ou…
Lees meer(Podcast) Upgrade 490: The Cat Has a Team of Lawyers
maandag 11 december 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)John Siracusa joins Jason to discuss Beeper, this week’s Apple OS updates, next year’s expected Apple hardware (including iPads, Macs, and Vision Pro), and the power of the defaults on macOS.…
Lees meeriOS 17.2’s Journal app offers introspection, surface-deep
maandag 11 december 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)
I’ve never really been someone who journals. At various points, I’ve tried: on and off throughout high-school and college, while I studied abroad, during a cross-country roadtrip, but these always seemed to peter out eventually.…
Lees meerThis Week in Apple: The haves and the have nots (Member Post)
zaterdag 9 december 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)
Apple’s got big plans for next March, Android users are muddying the waters and, sure, she’s got an award-winning podcast and I don’t, but have you seen her dance?… This story is for Six Colors members only. Become a member to get access to exclusi…
Lees meer(Sponsor) Audio Hijack
vrijdag 8 december 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)My thanks to Rogue Amoeba for sponsoring Six Colors this week regarding its indispensable audio utility Audio Hijack. It is one of my very favorite Mac utilities.…
Lees meer(Podcast) The Rebound 473: Totally Flim-Flam-Flobbable
woensdag 6 december 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Cars, Watch interactions and name changes for the ages.…
Lees meerEmpathy for the user experience, not Apple’s business strategy (Macworld/Jason Snell)
woensdag 6 december 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)I always knew that the Apple community had a bunch of different subcultures, but I was taken aback when Apple announced that it would add a new feature to iOS, and a bunch of people got angry about it.…
Lees meerBeeper brings on-device iMessage to Android–for now ↦
dinsdag 5 december 2023 inSix Colors (Mac algemeen)Beeper, a startup led by former Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky, announced a new version of its Android app that supports direct on-device compatibility1 for iMessage.…
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